Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical ...

This three-volume set contains an edited selection of articles and papers on positivism. It gathers together a number of influential voices in the struggle of the nature of the ...

In Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity Craig Browne investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the ...